I was briefly told about this last night so deffinetly going to have a look at it, and I think if it looks like my kind of thing maybe do a review or something what with everyone talking up the retroness of this and that kinda being my stick, will have a look into it when I get home.

Got this last night and played it for 20 minutes before bed once it hit midnight - managed to get 2nd on the 1B leaderboard thanks to playing it straight after release

On the bus this morning I played a couple more levels, the bosses in world 3 seem to be a good step up!

Are the powerups completely random? Runs at levels seem to go very differently depending on what powerups I manage to grab - especially if you luck out on the twin lasers. It seems to take a good 20 seconds to kill a turret with ordinary fire (and constant dodging), but get a laser and they're done in 1 or 2. I can see that making a big difference to high-scores.

I'm also not sure exactly how the overall score works - do you have to play through the game arcade style without stopping to keep it totaling up? I kept quitting back to the menu so I could look at the medals and leaderboards, which kept giving me a final score.

OrangeRakoon wrote:I'm also not sure exactly how the overall score works - do you have to play through the game arcade style without stopping to keep it totaling up? I kept quitting back to the menu so I could look at the medals and leaderboards, which kept giving me a final score.

There's a multiplier in the top left hand corner, you increase it by shooting things in quick succession, or you can hit one of those flashing alien things to boost it straight up to 32x. It decreases when you get hit or don't shoot something for a while. Keep it maxed as long as possible.

There's also bonuses for Skill and Time handed out at the end of the level, they're pretty self explanatory.

OrangeRakoon wrote:I'm also not sure exactly how the overall score works - do you have to play through the game arcade style without stopping to keep it totaling up? I kept quitting back to the menu so I could look at the medals and leaderboards, which kept giving me a final score.

There's a multiplier in the top left hand corner, you increase it by shooting things in quick succession, or you can hit one of those flashing alien things to boost it straight up to 32x. It decreases when you get hit or don't shoot something for a while. Keep it maxed as long as possible.

There's also bonuses for Skill and Time handed out at the end of the level, they're pretty self explanatory.

I mean the score that is tracked across multiple levels, and displayed on the menu screen